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cannonmn
03-11-2010, 02:23 PM
This describes postwar locations, but I think any documentation regarding Civil War ordnance, by registry number, is worth posting.

http://gs19.inmotionhosting.com/~milita ... /read/8438 (http://gs19.inmotionhosting.com/~milita8/cmh/member/member.cgi/noframes/read/8438)

tkavanagh
03-11-2010, 03:49 PM
OR reg num 58 (HOP say it's 153) is mounted vertically in cement in the gatepost at Fort Washington NP, MD, along with reg num 827. There are also, IIRC, 2 20 pdrs also in the gatepost, but I could not get their numbers.

In all, Ft. Wa also has:

1819 24 pdr, mounted en barbette;
1819 SG Mortar; mate to Ripley Fig. III-6, including West Point trophy plate;
1841 6 pdr Ames regnum 33, 1842 [nice floral engraving; known as "Barbara"];
1841 24 pdr Flank Defense Howitzer, Alger, 1846;
1857 12 pdr Revere; reg num 253, 1862;

Also, while I was there, 1977-80, I gathered up as many as I could of the Lorton Repops that were sitting around the back lots of other Nat Cap parks to construct a small ordnance park.

tk
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Wheat's Tigers
1st Special Battalion, LA Volunteers

[Seasonal Park Ranger at Fort Washington, 1977-80]